Did God just not give good directions?
2007-03-20 03:53:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Millions of people"? Come on, guys...those numbers don't add up. If it was a half million people, walking 10 wide the line would stretch for almost 70 miles......that is around half the width of the Sinai penisula!!
2007-03-20 04:03:57 · update #1
Hey, he was pacing himself. His buddy was carving a stone tablet to fake everybody over the other hill. Plus, they only had manna and no Gatorade.
2007-03-20 03:59:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
No, God did that on purpose to punish the Israelites for their unbelief. After they were freed from Egypt, they went back to worshipping idols, and wouldn't trust the God who brought them out of Egypt in the first place. So God had them wander around the desert for one generation (40 years) until all the adults who had left Egypt were dead. They would not be allowed to enter the Holy Land until this happened. Even Moses himself was not allowed to enter the Holy Land.
2007-03-20 03:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because so many people believed the Spies bad reports, God sentenced them to Wander in the desert for 40 years,
2007-03-20 03:57:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He knew where he was going.God would not let him into the promised land because of sin.So Moses and others had to live out in the wilderness until death.Joshua and Caleb were the only 2 people that left Egypt and entered Canaan.
2007-03-20 03:57:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Have you considered they were not in the Sinai? They were most likely in what is now Saudi Arabia.
At the end of it all, they cross the Jordan River - from the east side.
2007-03-20 04:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
this is one of the reasons biblical archaeologists aren't sure where exactly they went.
In the Bible it is on account of the sin of the people. no one of that generation who grumbled would enter the promised land. (Numbers 14:20-24)
2007-03-20 05:19:48 · answer #6 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sunspots occluded the GPS
2007-03-20 03:59:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This scenario always bothered me too. They could have held hands and stretched all the way to the "promised land"
Just another wacky bible story
2007-03-20 04:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No compass? Heat exhaustion? They were actually looking for a Deli? Alzheimer's?
2007-03-20 03:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
because he is not walking alone he is walking with millions of ppl some many miles has to delay
2007-03-20 03:57:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋